Francesca Bria
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
A Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in London, Francesca Bria is an innovation economist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economy, cities and society. Formerly the Chief Digital Technology Officer for the City of Barcelona, Bria is a member of the EU’s New European Bauhaus Roundtable and was President of CDP Venture Capital, the Italian National Innovation Fund.
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Sovereignty and Competitiveness: Why EuroStack is Europe’s Moment
How can Europe make up for lost ground in the global tech race, create more digital champions, and become more sovereign along the way? Big questions for this DLD25 panel discussion, moderated by…
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Smart, Green & Liveable: Shaping the Future of Cities
Urbanization is one of the defining trends of the 21st century: Cities continue to grow and will play an even more important role in shaping our future. They are economic centers and provide…
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Building A Sustainable Future for Europe
Francesca Bria, President of the newly created Italian National Innovation Fund, and Helmut Schönenberger, CEO of UnternehmerTUM discuss how the vision of the New European Bauhaus can be a catalyst for a new…
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Meet the EuroStack: “The World Desperately Needs a Third Way”
Innovation economist Francesca Bria has developed a strategy for making Europe digitally autonomous. She explains how the EuroStack can boost the continent’s competitiveness.
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City of the Future
How will old cities change and new cities be designed at the brink of a new age of smart cities? To Francesca Bria smart cities aren’t about companies providing technologies to cities to make them more efficient, they must also mean more participatory democracy...
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DLD Munich 2025
Europe’s leading innovation conference celebrates its 20th anniversary from January 16-18, 2025, in Munich. Find out about speakers, location details and how to attend…
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